By Tommy Nethery TYRONE u-20s assistant manager Dermot Carlin has welcomed the announcement that the All-Ireland Championship is to be completed in late October. At one stage it looked like the county’s u-20 footballers would miss out on having a tilt at national glory after retaining their Ulster crown against Donegal back in early March […]
By Niall McCoy FORMER Tyrone defender Justin McMahon believes that Mickey Harte can add a fourth All-Ireland title to his collection before he ends his involvement with the Red Hand county. Harte will lead Tyrone into championship football for the 18th time when the season belatedly gets underway in a few months’ time, and the […]
By Paddy Hunter and Niall McCoy CONFUSION reigns over Conor McKenna’s apparent ‘positive’ Covid-19 test that had seemed to put his Aussie Rules future in doubt. The Eglish man tested positive for the virus on Saturday, but on Tuesday he tested negative, raising the possibility that the weekend’s result was a false positive. Advertisement He […]
By Niall McCoy IT’S the days leading up to the 2008 All-Ireland final between Tyrone and Kerry and Justin McMahon is travelling home from training with his older brother Joe. They pull up to their house in Ashbourne out on the Dromore Road and take in their surroundings. There is red and white bunting everywhere […]
By Barry O’Donnell PROPOSALS on a revised fixture schedule are set to be forwarded to clubs in Tyrone after last week’s announcement of a green light to resume GAA competitions from July 31. On Friday past Croke Park set out its ‘Gaelic Games Safe Return Roadmap’ which included an 11-week window for a condensed club […]
By Lee Costello THE phrase ‘hard man’ has always been synonymous with the GAA. Mick Lyons, Diarmuid O’Sullivan, Francie Bellew are just a few such hard men who were not to be trifled with. We can all remember tales of a gorilla-like full-back who has boulders for shoulders, shovels for hands and forearms as thick […]
Former Tyrone star John Lynch picks out the players with the greatest attributes
Patsy Hetherington was a star forward for Tyrone throughout the 70s, read the story aout what made him great.
Which teams did you represent? Tyrone, Castlederg, and I played for a few teams in America; a Galway team, Notre Dame and I was a founding member of the Aidan McAnespies club in 1995/96. I played for Ulster in the Railway Cup. I played for Red Hughs before I packed it in. What is your […]
Pomeroy are aiming high Pomeroy has made massive strides on and off the pitch in recent years – and they have no intention of stopping OUR GROUNDS New developments Advertisement at Páirc Phluinceid POMEROY has always been a club that has aimed high. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s the highest village in the north, […]
